[mythtv-users] No sound after channel change with Pinnacle PCTV USB2 tuner

[Mark Lord]

On 12-02-03 10:30 AM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
>> On 11-11-22 07:28 PM, José Silva wrote:
>>>
>>> Nonetheless, something still puzzles me: the MPEG chip encodes the
>>> video, right?
>>
>> Audio _and_ video.  It encodes both, combines them into a single mpeg stream,
>> and all that mythtv software needs to do is save the stream to a file.
> 
> Exactly which model is this again?  There are a variety of devices
> which could be referred to as "Pinnacle PCTV USB2 tuner".  Really what
> I need is the model number (i.e. 70e, 73e, etc).

Good question for the original poster.
I was just answering to the question of what an "mpeg chip" does.

As far as analog tuners with built-in mpeg encoder chips,
I know of only one: Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U.

And the drivers for that device are horribly out of date
and didn't work in Mythtv with kernels higher than the 2.6.2x series
(last time I tried it).

Excellent tuner, though, with h264/mpeg encoding etc.. all in hardware.